Identification of skeins in dyeing, etc.



Mal-ch12, 1929. R RE g 1,705,207

IDENTIFICATION OF SKEIN IN DYEING, "-EFG Filed Dec. 10, 1924 Pat'ente'cl Mar. 12, 1929.

REGINALD REYNOLDS, OF RIVERSIDE, CONNECTICUT.

IDENTIFICATION OF SKEINS IN DYEING, ETC.

Application filed December 10, 1924. Serial 110.75%,882.

In the manufacturing and finishing of yarn, thread, and the'like composed of woo l, silk, cotton, and other fibrous inaterlal, it has been customary in the past to wind the yarn into skein's and to fastenthe strands of the skeins together by means of what are frequently called tie bands which are laced through or around the strands of the skein so as to hold them together during the processes through which the yarn passes, such as dyeing, bleaching, mercerizing, and etc. Spinning mills employ such tie bands for the purpose of identifying their yarn so as to make it possible to distinguish one size or construction from another. The code or meaning of these various tie bands is seldom understood away from the mill at which the band was applied. The result is that various sizes and lots of yarn become mixed not only in the mill of the owner but in the processing plants through which the yarn passes. Identification after the yarn has been dyed, bleached, or otherwise finished is sometimes practically impossible. Failure to properly identify the yarn is not only annoying and troublesome but frequently results in serious financial loss. Claims for defective material or faulty processing will not be allowed after identity has become lost. Where a converter is handling the product of several spinning mills it frequently happens that the product of two or more mills becomesintermingled and with the usual identifying tie hands it is (BX-V tremely diflicult, if not impossible, to distinguish one lot. of skeins from another.

I propose to overcome these difiiculties by using a tag or marker which 1s easily ap-' plied, inexpensive, light, will not cut or injure the yarn, will not dissolve or become 1llegible in the dye bath or process, will not spot or discolor the yarn or interfere with the dyeing operation, and which will clearly identify the yarn at the several stages of its process.

Fig. 1 shows a skein of yarn or the like with my special tag attached.

Fig. 2 shows one form of tag and one way of tying it.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the tag of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 shows another form of tag and another method of marking.

Fig. 5 shows another form of tag with marginal identification notches.

The skein 5 may be considered to represent any yarn or thread of wool, silk, cotton, or other fibre intended to be dyed, processed, or converted.

The tag 6 is preferably of a specially prepared material such as vegetable parchment or such as paper which has been coated, for instance, with viscose or similar plastic compound. This is not deleteriously affected by dye baths andv is not dissolved in bleaching or mercerizing. Although it retains all the strength necessary it. softens in the processing, sufiiciently to make the edges less harsh and less likely to injure soft or weak yarns. In fact it has the same appearance and form after treatment as before except for changes in color.

These tags are marked, for instance, by embossing, perforating or notching with the name or some code designation of the owner or the lot number or different shapes may be assigned to different lots or different owners.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a very convenient and desirable oval tag with the word Name indicated at 7 as. typifying a form of marking, in this case embossing. This tag also has other designating or distinguishing marks 8 indicating the size and ply of yarn in the skein.

The tag is suitably secured to the skein, for instance, by a strand 9 which may be a strand or strands of the skein itself, or its tie band, or a separate piece of string, thread, or yarn. 1 This strand is looped through a hole 10 in the tag, in this case near one end. The edges 11 of the hole may be curled over or embossed to smooth and reinforce it. It will be understood, however, that in my broader claims I do not desire to be limited to the particular method of securing the tag to the skein.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a round tag 6' with a central hole 1'0 for the attachment to the skein. In this Figure I have shown another method of marking, namely, by cutting or punching small holes through the tag.

The tag of Fig. 5 is oblong, with punched or st'encilled code letters LX denoting the lot, and with the edges notched accord ing to some regular system to indicate the size, etc. I

While I consider the specially treated paper as the preferable material for these tags it should be understood that in the broader claims I intend to include other materials suitable for some purposessuch, for

instance, as cloth or celluloid.

20 without material weakening,

Material treated with viscose can be made to have the peculiar feature of what is known as eross-dyeing-that is, it takes a color different from the yarn itself. This is a special advantage in that it makes the tag more noticeable and more easily found in the mass of yarn.

It should be understood that when the yarn has been dyed or otherwise processed, the tags are removed and the yarn is wound onto spools, bobbins, cops, and the like. The tag may be readily removed by tearing it or by breaking the binoer (when a separate binder yarn is used) or by unlooping the yarn;

I claim:

1., A dyers yarn tag formed of substantially non-absorbent vegetable parchment which is somewhat softened in the dye bath said tag havring a perforation for the yarn, the edge of the perforation having a reinforcing embossment, said tag having permanent identifying characters impressed therein.

2. A dyers yarn tag formed of vegetable parchment of oval shape wit-h an embossed rim and a perforation in one end provided with an embossededge, said tag having embossed identifying characters, said tag being adapted to be somewhat softened in the dye bath without weakening it materially, said tag being substantially non-absorbent.

3. A dyers yarn tag formed of substantially nonabsorbent vegetable parchment which is somewhat softened in the dye bath without material weakening, said tag having a perforation for the yarn and said tag having permanent identifying characters impressed therein.

REGINALD REYNOLDS. 

